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Apple will never come up with a stylus based phones. No one wants that, no one!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YY3MSaUqMg

If you really listen to what he has told - you don't even need to consider the context - he did not believe that stylus based smart phones or tablets were ideal. And he was totally right!

Steve Jobs is credited for many things. As any popular person, he is credited for things that he has said and things he has not said. Most of the second is usually extrapolated by other based on the things he said.

But a stylus based phone is different from a touch based phone that supports stylus for certain scenarios. So I would not surprised that even if he was alive the iOS today would support a stylus input, being not the normal use case of interaction. Heck, even a mouse. This does not take anything to the fact that a stylus based phone or tablet ... sucks.

PS: During his reign iOS already had a task manager. Not a desktop like task manager, something much more fluid. So fluid that people do not see it.

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